Tens of thousands of Ukrainian anti-government protesters gathered in Kiev
yesterday galvanised by anger at the beating of a prominent opposition
leader.

Yuriy Lutsenko, a former Interior Minister was injured in clashes between
police and militant opposition activists on Friday night.

His wife Iryna said that he was in a “moderate” condition after being attacked
by baton-wielding police when trying to break up the violence outside a
court in Kiev where three nationalist activists were jailed for plotting to
blow up a statue of the Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, in 2011.